Automation tails from the fox hole

Reddit

Around the time I was celebrating my 100th post, I made a big to-do about opening my own subreddit at /r/FoxDeploy. I had great intentions, I would help people in an easier to read format than here in the comments…but then, I just kind of, you know, forgot to check the sub for four months.

But no longer! I decided to solve this problem with the only tool I know…code.

Azure Functions

A few months ago, I went to ‘The Red Shirt’ tour with Scott Guthrie in which he talked all about the new Azure Hotness. He covered Functions, an awesome headless, serverless Platform as a Service offering which can run a variety of languages including C#, F#, Node.js, Java, and of, course, Best Language, PowerShell.

I was so intrigued by this concept when I first learned of it at an AWS event years ago in Chicago, where they introduced Lambda. Lambda was cool, but it couldn’t run bestgirl language, PowerShell. Continue reading →